Low Budget Terraced Garden Build

Hey Greg, do u ever do anything with cover crops? If not why? And if so why?

Well done!!! I like the method. I gave thumbs up and subscribed too! Keep it up!

What state are you in? Your soil is nice and soft and easy to work with? I am in the Southwest and our soil is hard as cement (almost) and it's hard to dig holes so much so it's discouraging. If we get heavy rain then that is the time to dig because it's mud and easy to dig.

LOL, we are in good company because I also have a broken toe. Kicked something hard barefoot by accident. Right foot small toe.

Excellent explanations. I think I can now terrace my slope.

Good stuff buddy!

my place is same as you

nice

Question: Could you use rebar, instead of making the wooden pegs? I have some dead trees on my very sloped property, but don't think anything is the right size to be a peg and rebar seems cheap enough that I might be able to get that in bulk without breaking the bank.

I love the way you garden. You have encouraged me tremendously

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Thanks for the tutorial. Gonna keep this video in my favorites. I'm not sure if I'm allowed to do this much work in the backyard of the new place I'm renting, but definitely going to be handy whenever we can buy a house

Excellent job. Persistence, patience, determination and focus on building a good bed. You forecast maybe 7 years of usage based on this but I think you'll get at least twice that if you keep topping it off with compost or fertilizer every year. Great job, and definitely an inspiration for me since I have a steep slope next door. I tackle one small spot or two per year and this makes me want to expand my parameters.

Very interesting and informative. Your video has inspired me to create a terraced garden even at my age 66. Thank you for sharing!!!!

Why not just put leaves, pine needles or wood chips down on your path? Shoot even straw would keep weeds away. Or clover? Seed clover in. Anything will work really, shoot stones would work 4 a walking path Anything but mud

This video was very relatable which I really appreciate. Theres a lot of use who cant afford help. What I appreciate is the fact that you got the job done yourself with the basic tools available to us all . 💙🔥

Just a warning that hammering in stakes with the cover on your axe like that can split the cover quite quickly as it puts pressure from your boss against the seam. Great video, cheers

wow

Really great tips and instruction. Thank you!!

For the first time, I can clearly visualize the concept. Thank you.

Thank you for offering ways to get it done without a workshop, a slew of heavy tools, and yard movers.

Thank you. This is just what I needed for a steep hill that I want to make into a garden, outside of my dear proof fence.

This gives me great ideas to utilize some space on a hill i am not using!

Thank you so much for making this video. You just made something that seemed overwhelming very accessible! Can't wait to do this to our hill.

I totally agree l don’t own a tractor so l need to see the ‘caveman’ style so to speak. My whole back yard is a hill. 3/4 acre worth

I just turned of f a video that had several pieces of machinery. Thank you for showing the rest of us.

Great video. Good explanation on use of tools, planning, and reflection.

Wow, how useful and practical. I've got a bare slope and I want to build terraces and you showed me all the steps, including moving logs, which has been my biggest problem.

Ataboy!

This is the right video i was looking for!!! You are practical and real in your opinion to find own intiative and creative Ideas to make gardening on slopes effective and productive using simple methods and techniques without high powered machineries but only manpower. My farmland is slopy and i dont know how to make it useful. So i am very thankful that i found your Video. More or less i can take some ideas from your video now. I have lots of Bamboo plantations in the farm maybe i can use them to block instead of using woods. Thank you very much for sharing ;-) I am subscribing because i like your techniques! God Bless!

That is a thing of great beauty
You have a new friend friend.

This video has been wonderfully helpful. Thank you.

Great information, thank you for sharing.

Hats off to your will power and hard work! castle did not built in a day

Omg! This man reminds me sooo much of myself by utilizing his surroundings for his landscaping designs and physically hauling his material himself while using his hands as tools for creating and building his gardening ideas. He even took the words right out of my mouth when he stated that tractors aren't cheap! Lol

Also what if i wanted to turn what u call ur standing area into another row would that work. I have a good bit of corn and I think doing smaller rows would be better than one big row. I’m opened to ideas. It’s basically a 20 x 40 area and it’s kinda divided into sections like 4 rows of corn 4 rows of tomato and pepper. Then the right side is squash cucumber zucinni and oakra. When I was hilling my corn for the first time I kinda made little terris rows bc I built up the soil around the corn and made idk what to call it ? Gullies? Basically a way to have water run. But it doesn’t work to well bc the running water washes away the high parts and after a rain I gotta go back a rebuild it up

I’m dealing with erosion right now. My issue is I already have veggies planted so I can only fill in with soil as the garden gets bigger.

This video is exactly what I was looking for, to fix up our slope behind the chicken run. We live in south western Nova Scotia and have 17 acres of woods and clay soil and rocks. And not rich. So your suggestions are very practical and now I can’t wait to get started

Such a great video learnt so much

I really appreciate this video! Love the attention to accessibility. This will be my first time creating a terraced garden, so I appreciate how you broke down each step and also gave tips along the way!

super nice video! Making some back breaking parts look easy lol, but amazing overall

Thank you again for another amazing and practically useful video. You really have a gift for empowering the average person. As a woman, that is so amazing and freeing. I don't need machinery or an engineering degree to be able to transform my land and take more control of my food supply.
I have so many areas on my land that are wonderful growing areas but, they are on hills. Like you, my opinion is to use it for space hogs and crops that I don't want in my main garden. And selfishly, I'd like to avoid having to mow those awful slopes!
I've been using logs since starting to watch your videos. I've been clearing and processing logs through the fall and winter, and am looking forward to test out my terracing skills.
Thanks again.

I’d like to do this on about a half acre of slope. Except I wanna plant bamboo on the terraced levels. And turn out my goats on it a few times a week for grazing

Another great video! Appreciate how you do low cost, low tech. Cheap is a compliment in Nova Scotia!

As usual my friend great job....I can see you likely will not stop expanding your garden. I am reworking my grden bed layout this year and I calculate I can get another 200 square feet of garden area! Looking forward to ripping into that after the garden is harvestted and put to bed!
Garden on brother!
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How is the new Ruth Stout potato patch coming along?

steel toed boots would be very helpful during these kinds of builds. LOL

Way to keep the expense down. Great video as always. Adding three beds this summer and doing the rustic log construction because they're free works for me. Will you incorporate that mulch into the soil, or just keep adding mulch as you go?

great video! It makes me think that it would be interesting if you did a video of your tool cache.